1979-03-05

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1979-03-05
1979 03 05 RRR Hugh Brown.jpg
a photo from the "Rather Ripped Records" appearance - copyright Hugh Brown
1979 03 05 RRR flyer James Chen.jpg
a flyer for the "Rather Ripped Records" appearance - provided by James Chen
1979 03 05 RRR newsletter Clifton Walker.jpg
a signed "Rather Ripped Records" newsletter from today - provided by Clifton Walker
1979 03 05 Andy Vicki Berndt.jpg
Andy Summers at a bookstore on UC Davis campus before the concert - copyright Vicki Berndt
1979 03 05 poster recordmecca.jpg
a poster for this concert - provided by Recordmecca.com
Performance summary
Artist performing: The Police
Tour: 1978-1979 Outlandos d'Amour Tour
Venue: UCD Coffeehouse
Location: Davis, CA, USA
Support acts: The Readymades
Ticket prices: US$ 3,00 - 4,00


On 1979-03-05, The Police performed twice at UCD Coffeehouse at the University of California at Davis in Davis, CA, USA.

Setlist

(in the intermission before the encore the studio version of Dead End Job was played)

Recording information

There's a recording of parts of the 2nd set - see "External links" section.

Trivia

At noon The Police signed records at "Rather Ripped Records" on the corner of Hearst & Euclid in Berkeley, CA, USA.

In pictures of this event Andy Summers can be seen wearing a button by local band "The Jars" on his leather jacket. Two of the band's members worked at the record store, that's why Mik McDow had the opportunity to give one to Andy.


Devorah Ostrov interviewed store manager Ray Farrell and was told this funny story:

Q: What did you do for The Police window?

Ray: I remember we made kind of a standard window with the album cover and singles and stuff. All the normal stuff you could get if you were into The Police. But I had this record from Stewart Copeland's first band... It was awful.

Q: Klark Kent?

Ray: No! This was way before Klark Kent. It was something he did in Berkeley; he went to UC Berkeley. It was this terrible progressive rock record that he put out with his friends. It was in the window, and I'll never forget Sting looked at it and said, "What is that?" And I told him, "That's Stewart's first band." And he said, "Are you serious? I've gotta hear this!" So, we played it, and he was just laughing. He couldn't believe how bad it was! He ripped Stewart about it for hours. He was like, "I can't believe you did something like this!" And he had to buy it. He said, "I'll give you $100 for this!" I think I sold it to him for $10.


A picture in The Police: A Visual Documentary by Miles on the March 1979 pages reveals that The Police were scheduled to play two sets with support act The Readymades (8pm and 10:30pm).

See also

This section needs more information.

External links

References

source: poster, flyer, Stewart Copeland's diary, The Police: A Visual Documentary by Miles; flyer & photos for Rather Ripped Records (Ed Perlstein provided the date); Marc Time (The Jars info)


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